Journal article
The Ethno-Necrocratic State: Mamillah and the Afterlives of Ethnocracy in Israel
International journal of Middle East studies, Vol.54(4), pp.623-646
10/06/2022
DOI: 10.1017/S0020743822000526
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Abstract
Using the unique and historic Islamic cemetery of Mamillah in Jerusalem as a primary example, this essay discusses the ethno-necrocratic order that led to the 2008 Israeli High Court of Justice's codification of the supremacy of Jewish bodies and afterlives over non-Jewish ones, on the basis of advancing Israel's values. Hundreds of Palestinian burial grounds, starting with village cemeteries, have been destroyed since 1948. Indeed, funerary sites have testified to the omnipresence and millenarian existence of a population that the state has sought to erase from memory. In a few decades, the deathscape was radically altered, in cities as in the countryside. Although real estate corruption plagues Israeli politics, land use planning and real estate capitalism are inseparable from the ethno-racial politics of exclusion, which affect both the dead and the living.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Ethno-Necrocratic State: Mamillah and the Afterlives of Ethnocracy in Israel
- Creators
- Meriam N. Belli - Univ Iowa, Dept Hist, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- International journal of Middle East studies, Vol.54(4), pp.623-646
- DOI
- 10.1017/S0020743822000526
- ISSN
- 0020-7438
- eISSN
- 1471-6380
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 24
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/06/2022
- Academic Unit
- History
- Record Identifier
- 9984306260202771
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